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Series 2: Interviewee Files, 受訪人文件, 1914-1989
Cai, Zengji/Choy, Jun-ke/蔡增基, 1969-1974 Chen, Guangfu/Chen, Kwang Pu/Chen, K.P./陳光甫, 1955-1976 Chiang, Yee/Jiang, Yi/蒋彝 (Restricted), 1961-1972 Ho, Franklin L./He, Lian/何廉, 1945-1975 Hu, Shih/Hu, Shi/胡適, 1914, 1957-1982 Huang-Shen, Yiyun/Mme. Huang, Fu; Huang-Shen, I-yun/黃沈亦云, 1961-1980 Koo, V. K. Wellington/Gu, Weijun/顧維鈞, 1958-1984 Kung, Hsiang-hsi/Kung, H. H./Kong, Xiangxi/孔祥熙, 1958-1974 Li, Zongren/Li, Tsung-jen/李宗仁, 1958-1980 Liu, J. Heng/Liu, Jui-heng/Liu, Ruiheng/劉瑞恆, 1960-1961 Tsiang, Tingfu Fuller/Jiang, Tingfu/蔣廷黻, 1963-1974 Wang, C. T./Wang, Chengting Thomas/Wang, Zhengting/王正廷, 1960-1961 Wu, K. C./Wu, Kuo-Cheng/Wu, Guozhen/吳國楨, 1960-1982 |
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ArrangementArrangementArranged in five series.
DescriptionScope and ContentsThe Chinese oral history project (COHP) collection (中國口述歷史項目檔案) documents the internal and external communication between the COHP staff and its participants as well as other affiliated institutions dating from 1958 to 1980. The collection contains administrative subject files, interviewee files which include correspondence, interview photographs and portraits, transcripts versions, reports, as well as autobiographies and manuscripts related to modern Chinese history collected during the course of the project. The collection also contains audio recordings of interviews and microfilm materials.
Using the CollectionRare Book and Manuscript Library Restrictions on AccessYou will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account. The digitized Memoirs accessible via the Digital Library Collections are: Franklin Lien Ho; Hu Shih; Wellington Koo; Li Hanhun; Li Huang; Li Shuhua; Tingfu Fuller Tsiang; Zuo Shunsheng. 
The following boxes are located off-site: 37-70. You will need to request this material from the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. Audio recordings in box 85-86. Unique time-based media items have been reformatted and are (available online / available onsite) via links in the container list. Commercial materials are not routinely digitized. Email rbml@columbia.edu for more information. Terms Governing Use and ReproductionUnpublished memoirs produced by the Academia Sinica and the China Missionaries Project may not be photocopied. For permission to photocopy from these memoirs, write directly to the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, NanKang, Taipei, Taiwan; or China Missionaries Project, Claremont Graduate School Oral History Program, 901 North College, Claremont, CA 91711. Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron. Preferred CitationIdentification of specific item; Date (if known); Chinese oral history project collection; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library. Related MaterialsRelated oral history projects 相關口述史料: Academia Sinica oral history project 中央研究院近代史研究所口述史料, 1950-1965 China missionaries project 中国传教士口述史料, 1969-1972 The following is a list of oral history interviews in the Chinese oral history project: 以下列表含所收集的個人回憶錄: Reminiscences of Choy Jun-ke, 蔡增基口述回憶錄 Reminiscences of Kuang-fu Ch'en, 陳光甫口述回憶錄 Reminiscences of Li-fu Ch'en, 陳立夫口述回憶錄 Reminiscences of Ho Lien (Franklin L. Ho), 何廉口述回憶錄 Reminiscences of Shih Hu, 胡適口述回憶錄 Reminiscences of Vi Kyuin Wellington Koo, 顧維鈞口述回憶錄 Reminiscences of H. H. Kung, 孔祥熙口述回憶錄 Reminiscences of Han-hun Li, 李漢魂口述回憶錄 Reminiscences of Huang Li: manuscript, 李璜口述回憶錄 Reminiscences of Shu-Hua Li, 李書華口述回憶錄 Reminiscences of Tsung-jen Li, 李宗仁口述回憶錄 Reminiscences of Huang Shen I-yun, 黃沈亦云口述回憶錄 Reminiscences of Ting-fu Fuller Tsiang, 蔣廷黻口述回憶錄 Reminiscences of Wu Kuo-Cheng, 吳國楨口述回憶錄 Reminiscences of Fa-k'uei Chang, 張發奎口述回憶錄 Reminiscences of Shun-sheng Tso, 左舜生口述回憶錄 The following are personal paper collections of the interviewees 以下列表含所收集的個人歷史檔案: Hanhun Li and Chu Fang Wu papers, 李漢魂與李吳菊芳檔案 Collection on J. Heng Liu, 劉瑞恆彙集 Other Chinese personal papers donated to RBML through Prof. Wilbur's introduction: AccrualsMaterials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information. Alternate Form AvailableMicroforms available. Transcripts available. AcquisitionTransferred from the East Asian Institute, 1958-1989 About the Finding Aid / Processing InformationColumbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library Processing InformationCataloged Christina Hilton Fenn 05/02/1989. Processed in August 2018 by Yingwen Huang. Title changed from "Autobiographies and related papers" to "Chinese oral history project collection" to reflect the contents of the collection according to DACS standard. Materials were rehoused in appropriate sized and buffered folders and boxes. All photographs were rehoused in mylars. All audio records were rehoused in record carton and planned for Time Based Media digitization project as of 2018; 14 reels of audio recordings with vinegar odors remain housed in a separated box. Interviewees' personal papers were separated and described as their own collection during processing due to the collection's provenance and also for better access and discovery. Interviewees with personal paper collections: Chen Guangfu, Chen Lifu, Wellington Koo, Kung H.H., Li Hanhun and Mme. Wu Chufang, Li Huang, Li Shuhua, Li Zongren, Liu J. Heng, Huang Fu, Hu Shih, Tsiang Tingfu Fuller, and Zhang Fakui. Researchers may find the personal papers in CLIO or in the related materials of this finding aid. 受訪者個人歷史檔案在整理過程中被分為各自的個人歷史檔案以便編目, 搜索, 和利用。有個人檔案的受訪者為：陳光甫, 陳立夫, 顧維鈞, 孔祥熙, 李漢魂與李吳菊芳, 李璜, 李書華, 李宗仁, 劉瑞恆, 黃郛, 胡適, 蔣廷黻, 張發奎。學者可利用CLIO搜索以上個人檔案。 Revision Description2009-06-26 File created. 2018-09-13 EAD finding aid was updated. 2019-05-20 EAD was imported spring 2019 as part of the ArchivesSpace Phase II migration. Subject HeadingsThe subject headings listed below are found in this collection. Links below allow searches at Columbia University through the Archival Collections Portal and through CLIO, the catalog for Columbia University Libraries, as well as ArchiveGRID, a catalog that allows users to search the holdings of multiple research libraries and archives. All links open new windows. Genre/Form
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History / Biographical NoteBiographical / HistoricalProf. C. Martin Wilbur 韋慕廷 (1907-1997) of the East Asian Institute, Columbia University, and Prof. Franklin L. Ho 何廉 (1905-1975) officially started the Chinese oral history project in 1958 to interview and document the life of prominent Chinese political leaders of Republican China (1911-1949) living abroad. The project was financed by Columbia University, the Ford Foundation, and later by the National Endowment for the Humanities. In designing the project, Professor Wilbur and Professor Ho decided to use an intensive approach instead of the extensive approach as in the American oral history project. They envisioned the project to concentrate on a few outstanding interviewees and to produce more accurate and detailed autobiographies. A total of nineteen prominent Chinese political figures residing in the U.S. and Hong Kong were interviewed. The Chines oral history project staff consisted of a team of scholarly interviewers with outstanding knowledge of modern Chinese history: Julie Lien-ying How (pinyin: Xia, Lianying; simplified Chinese: 夏连荫; traditional Chinese: 夏連蔭), Te-kong Tong (pinyin: Tang, Degang; simplified Chinese: 唐德刚; traditional Chinese: 唐德剛), Minta Chou Wang (王明德), Alice Kwong Bolocan, Kai-fu Tsao, Lillian Chu Chin, James Seymour, and Crystal Lorch Seidman. The scholar interviewers worked as collaborators, translators, and co-authors with the interviewees closely in the process of drafting, editing (and/or translating) the interview transcription, which later becomes their memoir. The project produced a total of sixteen finalized oral history interviews that were deposited at RBML for future scholarly research, many of which were later published. The project officially ended in the 1980s. |